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Tadao Ando

"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."

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Donna Grant

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

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Donna Grant

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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Donna Grant

"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."

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Donna Grant

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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Donna Grant

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

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Donna Grant

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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Donna Grant

"The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts."

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Donna Grant

"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."

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Donna Grant

"We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

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Donna Grant

"Rather than wait to see what the day or future holds, why not design and plan the future you want to experience?"

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Tadao Ando
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."

Architecture

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Tadao Ando
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."

People

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Tadao Ando
"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."

Temple

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Tadao Ando
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."

Design

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Tadao Ando
"You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today."

Leader

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Tadao Ando
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."

Thinking

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Tadao Ando
"You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see."

Knowledge

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Tadao Ando
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together."

Work

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Tadao Ando
"I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before."

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Tadao Ando
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."

Architecture

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